Reduced link interface - now for real

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Thu Dec 18 19:45:04 CET 2008


On Thursday 18 December 2008, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > one question to the packagers: do we need the reduced link interface also
> > for "internal" shared libraries, e.g. libraries within kdebase, as e.g.
> > libkonq, or libkopete in kdenetwork ?
>
> in some cases, yes. for me it only matters when we split it into
> differences packages,because then it makes a real difference in
> dependencies.
>
> so for prominent libs where other modules depend on yes, for something like
> libkopete no.

Hmm, that's a bit late.
Default is now an empty link interface, libs are only added explicitely.
The other option would be to have a switch which disables the emptying of the 
link interface.
Do we still want that ? It seems to be working without major problems (I 
expected a lot more).

Alex


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